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I'm passing on another article from Back issues of Credenda Agenda. When I first started digesting some of this kind of Christian thinking, I thought I was reading something from Mars. It was most disturbing as I kept noticing that it all seemed more biblical than what I had just accepted as normal. Doug Wilson has had a profound impact on what used to be just so many stagnant ponds in my mind. Areas that I never thought about, let alone held up to the light of God's Word. You repent and move on rejoicing about the many pearls that He keeps revealing. Hallelujah!

Feminist Traditionalism
Douglas Wilson

Feminism has had far more influence on the church than we dare admit. But we sometimes assume that feminism has only made in-roads on the left wing of evangelicalism where mom has her career, and the kids are in the licensed hands of some professional caregiver. But feminist assumptions have surrounded us for over a century, and serious compromises have been made with this ideology among "traditionalists" as well. Of course, these compromises are not openly acknowledgedtraditionalists certainly consider feminists to be with the enemy. Nevertheless, in a perverse way, one key tenet of feminismthat society has the right to define femininityhas somehow been enshrined as a traditional value...

...Difficulty often arises from our refusal to understand the hierarchical, anti-egalitarian nature of all human society. The Bible does not teach that women are to submit to men; it teaches that a wife is to submit to her own husband. Far from requiring general submission of a woman to men, this is a prohibition of such general submission . A woman who submits to her husband will be protected, by definition, from any attempted exercise of authority by other men. Moreover, if her husband is a leader, she has incredible influence over other men through her relationship to her husbandwhether for evil (1 Kings 21:5-7) or good (Est. 9:13)....

...both men and women should marry wisely, and to the glory of God.

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